The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."âGraydon Carter, Vanity Fair
No one would deny the proposition that in order to understand human behavior and development, one must understand "feelings. " The in tere st in emotions is enduring. Yet, within the discipline of psychology, the study of feelings and emotions...
"Lewis has such a gift for storytellingâ¦he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons." âJanet Maslin, New York Times
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert...
For Andrew Greeley, it is the reverence of Christmas night and the exultation of Easter morn. Martin Scorsese, like many others, remains grateful for the nuns who rapped his knuckles but built his self-esteem. Mary Gordon recalls the sense of lightness...
Did you hear the one about the bartender and the rabbi? If not, you'll find it in this delightful bookâalong with hundreds of other jokes and funny stories, classic and brand-newâabout the denizens of bars, pubs,...
Michael Lewis's instant classic may be "the most influential book on sports ever written" (People), but "you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts...
This is a sparkling anthology of the best of The Wall Street Journalâs "middle column" features that have appeared regularly on Page One of The Wall Street Journal for the past fifty years. The "A-hed"-so called because...
Michael Lewis sets out to find the most important technology entrepreneur - the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds Jim Clark, who aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his project. Lewis joins Clark on his yacht taking...
Developmental psychopathology involves the study and prediction of maladaptive behaviors and processes across time. This new edition of the Handbook furthers the goal of integrating developmental processes into the
This volume contains papers by a number of teachers and theoreticians interested in the practical classroom implications of incorporating collocation into everyday classroom teaching.
The contributors to this volume, all leaders in research on stress and coping from a developmental perspectives, examine behavioral and physiological correlates of stress and soothing for infants. For researchers, clinicians, and pediatric specialists....
Shame, the quintessential human emotion, received little attention during the years in which the central forces believed to be motivating us were identified as primitive instincts like sex and aggression. Now, redressing the balance, there is an explosion...